Testimony from three witnesses was heard Monday in the case of a 25-year-old Troy resident who is accused of killing his 3-month-old daughter.

Two months after his daughter, Kendalyn, was found unresponsive in his family's Stratford Road basement, Kenneth Michael Little stood before Judge William E. Bolle in the 52-4 District Court on child abuse and felony murder charges.

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Three of five witnesses called by the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office were cross-examined, and due to the length of questioning, Little's preliminary exam been extended and will continue again Wednesday.

Before proceedings began, Bolle informed the court that there was a request to amend the complaint against Little. A count of child abuse was added to the charges.

One of the Troy officers in charge of the case, Det. Kristine Shuler, read the amended complaint to the court.

Shuler said Little gave several different accounts of what had happened the night of his daughter's death, including that he "struck Kendalyn in the head twice with his open hand while she was on his shoulder."

"Kendalyn was treated and transported by Alliance EMS to St. John Oakland Hospital, where she was pronounced deceased at 3:04 a.m. on Oct. 22," said Shuler. "An autopsy was conducted on Kendalyn at the Oakland County Medical Examiner's office, which revealed recent blunt force trauma to her head and several healing rib fractures."

The Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide -- the blunt force trauma being the cause.

Charges against Little include first degree child abuse and felony first degree murder.

Pope-Stearns called her first witness, Christein Little, Kendalyn's mother.

The Littles' living arrangements, which put them living in their Troy house with at least eight other people, were brought into question.

The Littles and their two children -- along with another couple, four children and Christein's mother, Carol Ann McBride -- all lived at the house.

The prosecuting attorney also asked Christein if there was any other instance when Kendalyn had gone to the hospital for treatment.

During the questioning, Pope-Stearnes asked what kind of baby Kendalyn was.

"Fussy," said Christein. "She (had) colic."

Pope-Stearnes asked if she had done anything to try to treat her child.

"I've taken her to the pediatrician twice and I've changed her formula twice," said Christein.

Pope-Stearnes also directed the court's attention to past hospitalizations of Kendalyn. She produced a hospital record from an August 2012 visit to Troy Beaumont Hospital with Kenneth Little's signature.

She questioned Christein about that particular incident, asking what had happened to warrant a hospital visit.

Kendalyn had fallen on her head, Christein told the prosecutor, but she didn't remember much.

During his examination, Richard Lustig -- Kenneth Little's attorney -- asked Christein if she had actually seen her child fall in the August incident.

"No," she said.

Lustig asked what she did then.

"I yelled at (Kenneth), and then I took my daughter to the hospital," she answered.

The morning of the child's October death, after officials had notified Christein that Kendalyn had passed away, she and her husband went to the Troy Police department for questioning.

There was a point when Christein was allowed to speak with Kenneth in a conference room under supervision of police.

"What did he tell you then that happened?" Pope-Stearnes asked Christein.

"He had told me that it was his fault that (Kendalyn) passed away; that he had done it," said Christein.

The prosecutor asked how Kenneth Little said it had happened.

"He had told me that he had put her on his shoulder ... to try to help her to burp from eating, and he had leaned back against the wall and (Kendalyn's) head had smacked the wall ... and that she became unresponsive after that," Christein said.

She said she confronted her husband and asked him why he was telling her it was his fault that her daughter was dead when he made her believe it was an accident.

Later testimony on Monday revealed that he had also given responding police three different accounts of what had taken place before Kendalyn had become unresponsive.

Officer Melissa Weingart, a Troy midnight shift officer, testified that Kenneth Little had told her he was sitting up on the bed, holding the child when she became unresponsive.

The second and third times, he told Weingart that he was laying on the bed, and that he was standing up before the incident.

He also told officials that he was unable to get through to emergency personnel the two times he had called, but he had talked to his wife before that, said Weingart.

After the officer's testimony, prosecuting attorneys also called paramedic Blake Siebert to the stand.

Siebert was a responder the morning of Kendalyn's death.

Pope-Stearnes asked Siebert if the child's body had any rigor.

"No," he said.

He also said that he hadn't seen any injuries to Kendalyn during the time he was with her, but the child was also not responsive at all when he saw her and while he was transporting her to St. John Oakland.

Judge Bolle set the preliminary exam to continue at noon Wednesday, when an Oakland County medical examiner and another witness are expected to testify.